Spring 2012 - Clarion University

1995 Town Meetings and Oral History
“Voting was a new
experience. We were
reticent and our
husbands did not
encourage us.” Connie
Gruber, Shippenville, 94
at time of Project
1995 Tell It Like A
Woman Exhibit, a
combination of
local materials,
National Suffrage
photographs and
artist Deborah
Lawrence’s
contemporary
visions.
“Women were always on
the bottom. I don't think
women ever got the
recognition for anything
…Deep down inside—I
think a lot of the ideas the
men came up with, the
women gave to them.”
Carol Neiswonger, New
Bethlehem, Age 47 at time
of Project
“That was a bad time—prohibition. My mother
always belonged to the Women’s Christian
Temperance Union. She tried real hard to keep
those places closed…the men would drink and
use up all the money.” Myrtle E. McCullough,
Rimersburg, Age 80 at time of Project
1999 Harvey Hall Renovation - Dr.
Deb lives with the Physics
Department for the year.
1997 “Our
Foremothers’
Legacy” Project wins
State and National
Historical Society
Awards.
1995 Our Foremothers’ Legacy
Project celebrates 75th
Anniversary of Woman Suffrage.
*At the start of the project, no
one had ever tried to document
the history of Clarion County
women in the County’s 156 year
history.
2000 Tri-Iota Women’s Studies Honorary established
1996 “First Take Our Daughters to Work Day” (Sons join in
2000). Local girls and boys took part in hands-on
workshops to learn about career fields, the value of
education, equality in the workplace, and the possibilities
for a balanced work and family life.
*Town meeting and interviews
were conducted throughout the
county to gather women’s
accounts and artifacts from the
period of 1848-1948.
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